Youth Inspirational Books

In 1868, after their father is wrongfully convicted and deported on the last prison ship to Australia, twelve-year-old Patrick and the rest of the McWaid family determine to stay together and follow him to the far-off continent.

While investigating the robbery of a local museum, four young friends see some mysterious lights that they believe belong to a UFO on the mesa near the fictional town of Ambrosia, Arizona, and find themselves in real danger.

Fifteen-year-old Grace Doe keeps an online journal--a weblog--about her classmates rather than trying to connect with them, until her anonymity is threatened and she realizes that God does not want her to be isolated.

Twelve-year-old Wally, a computer whiz who is a "walking disaster area," ends up in a competition with the bully of Camp Whacka-Whacka, and when they find themselves fighting for their lives, Wally realizes that even his worst enemy needs God.

In 1907, while starting a new life in a Christian orphanage, eight-year-old Ethan and his three younger siblings hear about the prospect of being sent west on an Orphan Train and pray to stay together.

A sixth-grade field trip to Williamsburg, Virginia, stimulates the overactive imagination of future film director Sophie LaCroix, leading her to use eighteenth-century tactics to save a friend from humiliation by the popular girls.